This was really fast – only 2 weeks ago, I updated the last SWTOR Tutorial and it was broken again last Friday. But the good new is – it’s still working with the latest wine-staging Version. So this Tutorial is about how to get “Star Wars – The Old Republic” Version 5.4 running on macOS Sierra 10.12.6

The wine development is going on very fast. Also there are some changes in SWTORs Launcher in this year which make it more difficult to get it working on macOS Sierra. So I decided to make an updated Tutorial for wine 2.14.

Wine made a great progress with the release candidate 2.0-rc4. Now Star Wars – The Old Republic (including Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion) is better playable than ever before. Also the Minimap Bug is fixed out of the box. Here’s the updated Tutorial how to get it running on current macOS Sierra (former OS X).

I just thought … mhm how many games are out there … about Star Wars… and which was the first one… ? So here we go … source of knowledge “wikipedia” means it’s “The Empire Strikes Back” for Atari 2600 and Intellivision.

It’s quiet easy to get those old games running on your machine with OpenEmu…

ownCloud made a massive development from the Beginning to the current Version. It has Sync-Clients for all major Operating Systems and Apps for Mobile Clients. iOS Users get the Integration / Access to Files into the System like Accessing / Up- and Downloading Pictures and Videos and to files with Apps like Office 365 etc.

While OS X already has all the Components needed, this Article is about installing a seperate Instance of the required Components (Apache, MySQL, PHP).

From time to time i need to do Test-Installations on my Macs – Most times i forgot how or which tools i used to create an Installation USB-Stick quickly 🙂 – So here is one way i’ll go in Future.

First of all – If you like to have the latest OS X Version on your Stick – Download it from the App Store. If you’ve got already an old Version – you need to move or delete it from the Application Folder while the Tool we use later will use the Install-Image from the Application Folder…

Good News – The Force is with us again 😉 … or let’s better say with “Star Wars The Old Republic” (aka SWTOR) and Mac OS X 10.9.x Mavericks. It’s been a while since i wrote about “how to get SWTOR running on a Mac” with Wine, MacPorts etc. here. Now in 2014 the Game is “Free to Play” and most people prefer to use “Homebrew” instead “MacPorts” to install Software like Wine – So it’s time for an Update how to get SWTOR playable on your Mac …

Nearly every 2-3 month i was looking if there’s a new solution around to make the dock transparent on OS X 10.9.x Mavericks again.

In previous Versions of OS X it was easy to make the Dock transparent and a lot of free tools were around, but it seemed to be harder to find a working and stable solution for OS X Mavericks. So after some time “Spyresoft” released a small tool called “DockMod” now, which enables transparency on OS X Mavericks again…

Working with screens at night could be exhausting for the eyes, that’s why i prefer dark wallpapers and discreet light. Anyway, the OS X Menu Bar is not very impressed about a dark wallpaper . Good to know that “Nocturne” is still working and able to invert the menu bar.

“Nocturne” will just invert the menu bar – not the menu itself. The setup is pretty easy…